News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Systems Theory and Human Rights, Lancaster: call for proposals
Fourth Approaches to Inequalities Conference: Shades of grey, Northampton
Universitality of Climate Change, Manchester: call for papers
Holocaust and the GDPR: The duty to remember v the right to be forgotten, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Cryonic Preservation: Ethical and legal questions, London
European Governance of Health Crisis and Disaster Management, Amsterdam: call for papers
Transmitting Justice: Transparency, visuality and mediatization, London
Workshop on Security, Borders and International Development: Intersections, convergence and challenges, Warwick: call for papers
LSAANZ Annual Conference, Wollongong, Australia
Socio-Legal Masterclass, Oxford:
2018
August
The Impact of Law on Transnational Families' Staying, Moving and Settling
Dates: 14–17 August 2018
Venue: European Association of Social Anthropologists conference, Stockholm University, Sweden
Please see website for details.
September
Critical Legal Conference 2018: Regeneration – call for papers
Dates: 6–8 September 2018
Venue: Open University, Milton Keynes
A graduate workshop will take place on 5 September. Please see website for details.
21st Annual Dilemmas for Human Services International Research Conference
Date: 10–11 September 2018
Venue: University of Northampton
Please see website for details.
RCSL and ISA Joint Meeting: Law and citizenship beyond the state
Dates: 10–13 September 2018
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
Please see website for details.
African Studies Association UK Conference
Dates: 11–13 September 2018
Venue: University of Birmingham
Papers are invited for the African Feminist Judgments stream and the Customary Law and Legal Pluralism stream. Please see flyer and website for further details.
Hamlyn Seminar: Thinking about statutes – interpretation, interaction, improvement
Date: 12 September 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see website for details.
Public/Private Divide in the 21st Century
Date: 12 September 2018
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Please see conference registration page for further details of speakers and topics
Universitality of Climate Change: call for papers
Date: 13 September 2018
Venue: Law School, University of Manchester
Please see website for details. Closing date: 10 August 2018.
SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Politics in Latin America: Theoretical, conceptual and strategic lessons from the Global South
Date: 14 September 2018
Venue: University of Bath
Please see flyer for details.
Fourth Approaches to Inequalities Conference: Shades of grey
Date: 19 September 2018
Venue: University of Northampton
Please see website for details.
The Futures of Legal Education and Practice: call for papers extended
Dates: 20 September 2018
Venue: Open University, Milton Keynes Campus
Keynote speakers: Professor Anthony Bradney, Professor Richard Collier and, founder of the integrative law movement, J Kim Wright
This is the OU's annual conference on the legal profession and legal education, organised in conjunction with the Legal Education Research Network. Please see flyer for details. Please see website for further details and booking. Call closes: 17 August 2018.
Affirmative Action and the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality
Dates: 22–23 September 2018
Venue: Tamil Nadu Law School,Tiruchirappalli, India
This event is organised in collaboration with Oxford Human Rights Hub, Oxford University. Please see website for details.
The Development of Abortion Rights in a Changing Europe
Date: 28 September 2018
Venue: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Please see flyer for details. See website for details.
October
Foundations of the Common Law 1215–1914: Launch of the library
Date: 3 October 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see website for details.
IV CINETS Conference 2018: Mobility and security in an era of globalization – crimmigration at a crossroads?
Dates: 5–6 October 2018
Venue: Queen Mary, University of London
Please see attachment for details.
Cryonic Preservation: Ethical and legal questions
Date: 6 October 2018
Venue: Wellcome Collection, Euston Road, London
Please see website for details.
Holocaust and the GDPR: The duty to remember v the right to be forgotten
Date: 8 October 2018
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle
Please see website for details.
Adler, Creutzfeldt and Hertogh: joint book launch in Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Series
Date: 10 October 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This event celebrates the launch of three new titles in this book series, edited by David Cowan. The new titles are by Mike Adler (Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment?), Naomi Creutzfeldt (Ombudsmen and ADR) and Marc Hertogh (Nobody’s Law). See website for details. Please contact Naomi Creutzfeldt for further details.
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop
Dates: 11–12 October 2018
Venue: Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Accra, Ghana
Please see website for details.
The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform: Third annual conference
Date: 12 October 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Academic Convenors: Dr Maren Heidemann, Catherine Pédamon and Dr Joseph Lee
Organised by the IALS Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, University of Westminster and University of Exeter. Please see website for details.
Brexit and Legal Education
Date: 15 October 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organised by Tamara Hervey and Lisa Webly with support from the Association of Law Teachers, Routledge, the Society of Legal Scholars and Sheffield Law School. Please see website for details.
Systems Theory and Human Rights: call for proposals
Date: 18 October 2018
Venue: University of Lancaster, School of Law
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 14 September 2018.
Infrastructures of Injustice: Cambridge-Singapore-Princeton Network workshop series
Dates: 26–27 October 2018
Venue: St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Please see attachment for details.
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative
Dates: 29–30 October 2018
Venue: School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
Please see website for details.
November
ESRC Festival of Social Science, nationwide
Dates: 3–10 November 2018
Venues: nationwide
Please see website for details.
Transforming Cities with Artificial Intelligence: Law, policy, and ethics
Date: 23 November 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see website for details.
EU Health Law and Policy: Shaping a future research agenda
Dates: 29–30 November 2018
Venue: University of Edinburgh
Please see flyer for details.
December
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop
Dates: 5–6 December 2018
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Please see website for details.
European Governance of Health Crisis and Disaster Management: call for papers
Dates: 6–7 December 2018
Venue: Amsterdam Law School
Co-Conveners: Mark L Flear (Queen’s University Belfast) and Anniek de Ruijter (Amsterdam)
Please see attachment for details. Call closes: 24 September 2018.
Race: Why can’t the law effect genuine equality?, London: call for papers
Date: 7 December 2018
Venue: St Mary's University, Twickenham, London
Organised by the Centre for Law and Culture at St Mary's University with the University of Westminster and GSM London. Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 28 September 2018.
Transmitting Justice: Transparency, visuality and mediatization
Date: 10 December 2018
Venue: 83 Pall Mall, London
This event is sponsored by the SLSA (under our Seminar Competition) and the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. Please see website for details.
LSAANZ Annual Conference
Dates: 12–15 December 2018
Venue: Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia
Theme: Inclusion, exclusion and democracy
The SLSA and Canadian Law and Society Association are co-sponsors of this event. Please see website for details. There are up to six bursaries available for PhD students and early career researchers presenting at this event.
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop
Dates: 13–14 December 2018
Venue: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Please see website for details.
Relationship breakdown: Informal and legal solutions
Date: 14 December 2018
Venue: De Montfort University, Leicester
Please see website for details.
This event is organised by the International Network of Scholars Researching Unregistered Marriages.
'Orient Far and Near' Conference: call for papers
Dates: 14–15 December 2019
Venue: University of Wrocław, Poland
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 23 November 2018.
Flashpoints Conference on Law, Religions and Human Rights: advance notice of call for papers
Date: 17 December 2018
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
The call for papers will open on 1 September 2018. All topics on law, religion and human rights welcomed. Specialist streams on: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, Childrens Rights, Duties of the State, and Public Bodies and Historical Papers. Details to follow, but if you have any questions in the meantime, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
2019
April
Workshop on Security, Borders and International Development: Intersections, convergence and challenges: call for papers
Dates: 25–26 April 2019
Venue: University of Warwick
This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition. Please see attachment for details. Call closes: 30 September 2018.
May
20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law: call for papers
Dates: 23–25 May 2019
Venue: Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra (UCILeR - University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), Coimbra, Portugal
Theme: The limits of law
Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 15 January 2019.
2020
June
Genocide and Law: Communicating through visual arts and language: call for papers
Dates: 26–28 June 2020
Venue: Poznan, Poland
This is the 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law and the 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics. Please see flyer for details. Closing date for abstracts: 28 February 2020.